Jessica Chen Weiss is an American author and political scientist who specializes in

China–United States relations The relationship between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the United States of America (USA) has been complex since 1949 with mutual distrust leading to complications. The relationship is one of close economic ties (economic ties grew ...

. She is currently the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies at

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...

's government department and Senior Fellow in Chinese Politics, Foreign Policy, and National Security at Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis. She is the author of the 2014 book '' Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations.''

Early life and education

Weiss was born and grew up in

Seattle, Washington Seattle ( ) is a port, seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the county seat, seat of King County, Washington, King County, Washington (state), Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in bo ...

. She obtained a bachelor of arts degree from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

in 2003 and attended the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

, graduating in 2008 with a PhD.

Career

In 2014,

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the university press of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world, and its printing history dates back to the 1480s. Having been officially granted the legal right to print books ...

published her book ''Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations''. She was senior advisor to the

United States Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other n ...

's Policy Planning Staff from August 2021 to July 2022. She is the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies at Cornell University's government department. She has advocated for the U.S. government to avoid an "overly confrontational" approach to its relations with China. An August 2022 article she wrote in ''

Foreign Affairs ''Foreign Affairs'' is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and ...

'' espousing this approach was described by Ian Johnson in a piece for ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'' as catapulting Weiss "to the front ranks of the growing number of China experts concerned that U.S. foreign policy suffers from an unhealthy focus on China as a threat."

Selected publications

*
Authoritarian Signaling, Mass Audiences, and Nationalist Protest in China
'. 2013, ''

International Organization An international organization or international organisation (see spelling differences), also known as an intergovernmental organization or an international institution, is a stable set of norms and rules meant to govern the behavior of states an ...

''. * '' Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations.'' 2014,

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on

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Early life and education

Career

Selected publications

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